Hello,I have an iMac G3 Rev D Lime that I am trying to restore back to what it was like new. I have a lot of it working but wanted to add OS X Panther to dual boot as well. Panther goes through the first path of the install but on reboot I get "panic (cpu 0): Unable to find driver for this platform: iMac". My hunch is that the logic board was replaced at some point but never registered with the serial number of the machine, which is causing the panic error message. Does anyone have the serializer for this generation? I tried using BBS v.3T106 but it send the machine into open firmware. I saw another post on here similar to mine and I'm hoping someone has the software to correct this.

My memory of the original iMacs and OS X is that they needed a firmware update at one point in order to run a particular version of OS X (and later).

This typically manifested itself as a hardware freeze that required a complete motherboard reset (disconnect power & motherboard battery and then reset it over and over and over until one time out of 50 it boots) but I never tried with later versions of OS X so it's possible the newer versions just KP.

If you can boot Mac OS (9) you can find the serial number in system info or whatever that application was called. If its blank then at least you'll have an answer.

I think the clue is the message about driver for "iMac". I think it's trying to find "iMac,1" which is what this machines real device name is and I think that gets assigned during the serial number setup.

I may have a Panther disc in my storage room. Finding it, though, is the challenge. I kept retail boxes for everything from the public beta (just a folded piece of thick cardstock with the CD sleeved in) up through 10.5. I managed to lose my Jaguar disc during one of my many moves though, so that's why I say may.

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